Author, researcher. Pop culture, science, & history. Bylines @esquire, @NewRepublic, @CNN, @Slate, etc. My new book, "Jimmy," about James Dean out now!
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New York City before the skyscrapers--an aerial view of Manhattan in 1931.
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A client informed me that he will no longer pay me to write content for his website because A.I. can write it for free, but he wants to pay me a fraction of my usual rate to "rewrite it" in different words so it can pass Google's A.I. detection screening.
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This is the same A.I. that the assholes in charge trained on my writing, since it spits back lightly rewritten versions of my own words.
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In his mind, it means I am getting better value by getting money for "easier" work, so in theory I'd make it up in volume. Businesspeople don't understand how writing works. They see it as words per minute.
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Listening to Bill Maher talk with Megyn Kelly and Ezra Klein makes a good case that one of the biggest problems with our political discourse is mistaking being on TV for being insightful or thoughtful or knowledgeable.
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I told him that rewriting it is still writing, so it will still cost the same as a full edit/rewrite of human-generated text (which I also do). He wasn't too happy about that but seems to think that A.I. generates more perfect (i.e. generic) text than humans.
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I hope when the Supreme Court conservatives go out to eat, every restaurant in D.C. turns them away and tells them that serving judges is against their religion (Matthew 7:1-2).
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Forbidden from saying the word "gay," a Florida teen gives a graduation speech about the struggles of curly-haired youth in Florida's climate of humidity. Apparently we are at the "malicious compliance" stage of political oppression. msn.com/en-us/news/us/curly-…
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Apparently I need to spell this out because everyone online is pedantically literal: As I assumed was obvious, this is before skyscrapers took over Manhattan, not before any were built. You can see the Empire State Building in the photo, for Pete's sake. Don't be so literal.
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The publishing figures for 2022 were rather depressing. In a country of 332 million people, only 28 books out of ~300,000 titles sold more than 500,000 copies. Eight were by one author, Colleen Hoover, and no book of history or politics sold more than 295,000 copies.
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Conservatives' masculinity panic has been a constant as far back as we care to look, back to Antiquity. Tucker Carlson's version of shrewish harpies feminizing men is straight out of a misogynist '50s comedy, either the 1950s or the 350s BCE. msn.com/en-us/news/us/tucker…
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I'm sorry, but @bariweiss and @billmaher can talk all they want about being "over" COVID and calling public health measures a "moral crime," but some of us have kids too young to vaccinate, and I'm sorry that their health is "inconvenient" to your clubbing and partying.
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The Romans moved Egyptian obelisks out of Egypt, across the Mediterranean, and into Rome and Constantinople. Corsetti does not claim that the Romans had Atlantean technology.
Additional mind-blowing context:
Statue of Liberty: 225TONS
Egyptian Obelisk: 1,200TONS 🤯
The mystery is real. A lost ancient advanced civilization was here…
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Past the top 100 books, the numbers are dire. The average book sells 200 copies. An average "bestseller" sells about 2,000 copies. Almost all significant book sales are to "communities," typically book clubs, authors' social media followers, or interest groups (like true crime).
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When Flint was on Rogan's show, Rogan seemed to understand the weaknesses in Graham Hancock's claims, but it seems that he retreated to his echo chamber, suggesting that he parrots the "ideas" of people he likes.
Joe Rogan has called me a liar. This video is my response
Link to video: piped.video/KR9_oLmoQVI?si=IgRz…
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Bill Maher admitting that he only cares about bad things that directly affect his pleasure and doesn't care about things that don't personally affect him is probably the most honest thing he ever said.
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That's lower Manhattan. Midtown didn't a plethora of skyscrapers of comparable size until after the war.
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Who says that ancient people had no personal hygiene? Jimmy seems to be confusing 1960s caveman movies with real life.
Archaeologists insist that GOBEKLI TEPE was built by ‘hunter-gatherers’
So let me get this right…
Primitive Cavemen looking dudes who wore rags for clothing, lacked sophistication to cut their hair, bathe, or conduct personal hygiene built it? Lol, nah 😂
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Graham Hancock claims to have been "conned" in a debate he proposed, with an opponent he chose, in a forum he selected, and by evidence publicly available to him.
After our debate on JRE 2136 I emailed @FlintDibble to tell him: "You speak well for your cause. I was impressed". It's disappointing, now new information has come to light, to discover that @joerogan and I were conned. Evidence here:
piped.video/Z1de_GHm63k?si=Mllp…
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Because publishers put out too many titles each year (~300,000 or up to 4 million if you count self-publishing), choice paralysis sends readers to familiar titles. Back catalog sales have expanded each year, shrinking sales of new titles.
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In the 1980s members of Congress, including high-ranking senators, accused the CIA of hiding satellite photos of Noah's Ark. They demanded classified evidence be released. Years later, declassified reports revealed classification protected missile locations. There was no Ark.
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At my son's practice, a group of dads spent the time talking about their love of Joe Rogan's show, especially the "interesting" lost civilizations "they" don't want you to know about, and they're upset that museums "steal" artifacts and dump them in rivers to hide them from us.
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The library had a total of 3 children's books on LGBTQ themes, and 173 on Christian topics.
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What's going on with the progressive gilding of the Oval Office? Every few days, Trump adds more gold leafing and gold details like he's trying to recreate Versailles or his Versailles-themed tacky Trump Tower penthouse.
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Speaking to the LA Times, @adamconover has it exactly right: Hollywood purposely broke a model that worked relatively well and delivered profits and replaced it with an ineffective, pricey kludge that primarily serves to line executives' pockets. msn.com/en-us/money/companie…
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The "drone" flap is almost a textbook case study, like the killer clown hysteria a few years back.
Finally, an official voice of reason.
No drone reports have been corroborated as drones.
Many drone reports have been identified as normal aircraft.
There's no evidence of any threat.
However, drones are still an important security concern.
Like I said.
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A man disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair attacked the Mona Lisa with cake at the Louvre today. The painting was unharmed thanks to its protective glass case. marca.com/en/lifestyle/world…
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It's just somebody discovering a new toy. We'll see whether it amounts to anything after he discovers the limits of A.I. writing.
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I sat through all eight episodes of "Ancient Apocalypse" so you don't have to. It's basically an adaptation of Graham Hancock's "Magicians of the Gods," but superficial and worse.
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This past week's "drone" flap has taught us that we should probably be concerned about how few people are able to recognize airplanes and helicopters.
I’m staring to think that whatever these craft are…
Are slowly dropping their veil…
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The aircraft is a commercial airliner, most likely a CRJ-700/900.
It can be visually identified by the low wing, T tail, and empennage mounted engines.
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So many of the bad ideas infesting our public discourse right now were floated on the History Channel conspiracy shows like Ancient Aliens, America Unearthed, etc. years before. I wrote about them, warned about what was coming, and got attacked over and over. Told you so.
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What got me in last night's "Ancient Aliens" was how in the space of a couple of minutes they went from telling us that the Romans transported Egyptian obelisks to Rome to telling us that the Egyptians needed aliens to move them because they're impossible for humans to move.
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He seems to think users are attracted to Twitter as a product rather than the content users generate on it.
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Many have asked why Graham Hancock's opponents don't make their own rebuttal TV series. Let me tell you why. I've never actively sought a TV role (I've turned down 20+ programs that wanted me to spout lies), but I have been involved in a few efforts to make true history shows. 🧵
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My son and I stopped by Target to look at the toy aisle, and I have no idea what kind of kids are supposed to be excited by the toys they stock.
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So, the constellation Orion is now a drone swarm?
Last night, beginning at around 9:45 pm, I personally witnessed (and videoed) what appeared to be dozens of large drones in the sky above my residence in Davidsonville, Maryland (25 miles from our nation’s capital). I observed the activity for approximately 45 minutes.
Like many who have observed these drones, I do not know if this increasing activity over our skies is a threat to public safety or national security. But the public is growing increasingly concerned and frustrated with the complete lack of transparency and the dismissive attitude of the federal government. The government has the ability to track these from their point of origin but has mounted a negligent response. People are rightfully clamoring for answers, but aren’t getting any.
We are being told that neither the White House, the military, the FBI, or Homeland Security have any idea what they are, where they came from, or who has launched or is controlling them–and that they pose no threat.
That response is entirely unacceptable. I join with the growing bipartisan chorus of leaders demanding that the federal government immediately address this issue. The American people deserve answers and action now.
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The stars at the 39 second mark are recognizably the constellation Orion. From this you can determine that the bright lights behind the trees are the stars Sirius and Procyon.
No anomalous objects are apparent in this video.
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Sorry, the context isn't clear from this excerpt: Are you praising his freshman-English-level understanding of storytelling, or calling out its shallowness?
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They already did. UFO belief has made the world worse in many ways: more distrustful of science and government, more paranoid and afraid, more willing to embrace illogic and magical thinking.
UFO research 'could change the world,' Blink-182 co-founder says | Fox News foxnews.com/science/ufo-rese…
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I find it hard to believe that Keanu Reeves thinks he is taking a stand against Big Archaeology, but it's fascinating that Hancock thinks it's unfair to "leverage the media" to criticize him while he literally uses one of Netflix's biggest unscripted shows to attack scholarship.
Hugely grateful to Keanu Reeves. To stand by me in so public a way risks the hatred of archaeologist zealots who believe that only they have the right to interpret the past and who leverage the media to vilify alternative voices. Season 2 launches 16 Oct.
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Back in the 1990s, Graham Hancock coauthored "The Mars Mystery," claiming that Mars bore evidence of buildings constructed along the same lines as the "lost civilization" he sought on Earth. Remarkably, he stopped talking about it and pretends it never happened.
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This is one of the stupidest UFO panics in recent years.
People saw airplanes, called police saying it was drones. So police sent helicopters to find the drones. So ppl saw the helicopters, called police saying it was MORE DRONES, now working as a TEAM. So now the mayor says there’s a MOTHERSHIP with a TEAM of DRONES scanning NJ.🤦♂️
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Ex-Trump advisor Steven Bannon endorses Alex Jones's claim that "intergalactic" space demons are taking over human bodies, as recorded in ancient texts.
Once again, we see the intersection of rightwing extremism, ancient astronaut theory, and apocalyptic religious claims.
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If you're a horror genre fan, you probably noticed more than a passing similarity between Graham Hancock's "Ancient Apocalypse" and H. P. Lovecraft's stories of prehistoric civilizations, lost cities, and cosmic catastrophes. There's a good reason: The Necronomicon. (cont.).
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The UFO hearing seems to be less about providing evidence of secret space alien technology and more about canonizing familiar, low-evidence recent allegations in the Congressional Record as a selling point for military hardware, consulting services, and media products.
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Did you know that Victorians and Edwardians loved to produce hoaxes about lost prehistoric super-civilizations? Many in the 19th and 20th centuries fell victim to these hoaxes because they wanted to believe in a lost antediluvian world. Let's look at a few (cont.).
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“It’s become what it is today, which is some out-of-control juggernaut that I barely have control of,” Rogan said. No, he has complete control over his show. He can choose not to spread conspiracies. What he means is that the lies are more profitable. msn.com/en-us/news/technolog…
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I'm not even going to touch the Ye thing except to say that maybe @HISTORY airing decades of shows saying "Look how cool Nazis were! They had super weapons and time machines and the Holy Grail and found Atlantis and met space aliens!" wasn't such a good idea.
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Mormons are searching for an imaginary lost ancient Jewish mega-city in Iowa and claim to know where it is. iowastartingline.com/2021/12…
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The great vampire panic of the 1700s started with Serbian villagers claiming that the undead were murdering their friends and family. The Habsburg government sent the military to investigate. They exhumed, decapitated, and burned blood-filled vampire corpses. 🧵
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Nashville bomber's rambling manifesto is a hodgepodge of @AncientAliens-style conspiracies about UFOs, aliens, DNA manipulation, hidden history, and the occult nature of reality. As I've said for years, these ideas aren't "fun." They are dangerous. newschannel5.com/news/newsch…
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Oh, for fuck's sake. msn.com/en-us/news/world/fac…
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So, the military can hide space aliens for nearly a century and reverse-engineer their technology, but didn't notice Chinese malware on their computers that can take down the military? nytimes.com/2023/07/29/us/po…
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If the aliens have been visiting Earth for thousands of years, why did their flying saucers only start crashing after World War II? I'm curious why the space monsters were so good at leaving no trace down to 1947 and then suddenly turned into demolition derby drivers.
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I finished proofreading and formatting almost 100 pages of ancient Chinese accounts of the Roman Empire because the OCR of the 1885 book on Google Books and Archive.org is almost unusably bad and no one has posted cleaned and searchable text. jasoncolavito.com/chinese-ac…
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LEAKED: A classified photo from inside the secret Pentagon UFO program shows a government insider making a treaty with a non-human intelligence.
ALT An illustration of Christiopher Marlowe's play "Doctor Faustus" in which the title character summons a demon from Hell.
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Yes. That's why they don't print the numbers for most book sales. They are so much lower than you would ever imagine. My books are significantly above average in sales, and yet they don't make enough money to cover a mortgage payment.
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I live ten miles from the Albany International Airport. We have planes flying overhead, often quite low, all day and night. The local hospital also receives regional medical helicopter patients. The "drone" videos look just like any given night in the sky here.
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Corsetti seems to mistakenly think Gobekli Tepe looked like Stonehenge. I'm not sure he understands that the walls were part of the structures.
Jimmy Corsetti is hands down the STUPIDEST pseudoarchaeologist
Thinks archaeos are excavating too slowly at Gobekli Tepe to save "a million pot shards" at a PRE-POTTERY site
He thinks INTACT 10,000 year old walls are "rubble" to be removed
He's the DUMBEST rage baiter on X
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If you watched Graham Hancock's "Ancient Apocalypse," you really need to know about the man who inspired Hancock's ideas. No, not Ignatius Donnelly. Today we're talking about Abu Ma'shar, the ninth century Persian astrologer who invented Hancock's vision of history. (cont.)
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You can't "debunk" a mystery, since by definition a mystery is something unknown. What he means is that he wants to fantasize and speculate without anyone pointing out the lack of evidence, though he himself admitted there is no archaeological proof of his lost civilization.
Sedona: 19-20 April: I'll give a series of presentations focussed on the mysteries of our past that archaeologists seem most desperate to "debunk", I'll open the floor to questions and we'll have plenty of time for book-signings and photos. Details:
worldviewzmedia.com/seminars…
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Slate asks why podcasting is dominated by the far right and obliquely addresses the reason conservatives love UFOs, Atlantis, and other wacky claims: They use the entertainment value to lure in listeners and then poison them with unpopular far-right ideas. slate.com/culture/2024/11/po…
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Graham Hancock is on Joe Rogan discussing Flint Dibble in a rather defamatory way, and getting into the weeds of racism, excusing Jimmy Corsetti's use of anti-Semitic punctuation (the parentheses "echo") and talking about the Olmecs being Black Africans.
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I don't know what @MSN thinks it's doing by platforming hate speech, but this piece ranting about Popeye being "woke" and promoting "sexual degeneracy" by adding a gay character shouldn't be a featured story on any mainstream platform. bizpacreview.com/2022/07/09/…
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If any of that were true, you wouldn't be hearing about it first on a cable TV reality show.
There is something in the sky & happening at Skinwalker Ranch. Preparing to unveil Season 4 which is going to blow minds & change how people view our world & reality itself. April 18th is just around the corner… #skinwalkerranch
@HISTORY #ufotwitter
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NPR visits Göbekli Tepe and grapples with problems Joe Rogan, Graham Hancock, and Jimmy Corsetti are causing by pushing conspiracy theories about the ancient marvel. npr.org/2025/08/09/nx-s1-549…
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A reminder that humans knew how to sculpt long before Göbekli Tepe, and hunter-gatherers did not require Atlantis to teach them how.
The Venus of Brassempouy (or Lady of Brassempouy) is one of the earliest representations of the human face. It was sculpted in mammoth ivory about 25,000 years ago. It was discovered in a cave at Brassempouy, France in 1892.
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Logitech's CEO says consumers will "love" its new plan to charge a monthly fee to use your computer mouse. fortune.com/2024/07/31/logit…
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I asked ChatGPT a pretty basic question about a historical claim that aired on the History Channel last night, and it had to search Wikipedia because it had no idea how to answer. And then it answered wrong. It is not as smart as a "top expert."
GPT-5 Pro is already as smart as a top expert or scientist in any field & can make original scientific discoveries from available data just as scientists do, albeit not yet autonomously because it lacks persistent memory and some
level of self-learning (i.e., AGI). GPT-6 should be able to achieve that and GPT-7 will likely surpass the level of even the best scientists in making scientific discoveries.
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Didn't the ufologists and their media enablers (I'm looking at you, Slate) promise that after today, civilization itself would change and "nothing would ever be the same again"? It feels very much the same.
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The manifesto of the man arrested in the New Zealand mosque attacks asked the "reborn" Knights Templar for their blessing. ARE YOU LISTENING @HISTORY and @travelchannel? Stop broadcasting white nationalist Templar conspiracy theories.
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A big chunk of website writing is never meant to actually be read by humans for enjoyment but simply for other machines to read, score, and rank before redirecting human users to the homepage.
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If you see this "UFO Journal" magazine cover circulating on Twitter, it's a fake made from a genuine issue of The American Legion Magazine.
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Pretty much what I and other researchers have said for years: It's a small group of paranormal enthusiasts who all know and work with each other, all growing out of the Skinwalker Ranch poltergeist hunt.
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A behind the scenes photo taken before the UFO hearing shows witnesses and UFO celebrities gathering. The fix has always been in. Congress only listens to UFO propagandists--and they all work together.
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The one on the left is a modern copy of the one on the right, produced as part of the "cacophony of crap" sold to Father Crespi. The forgeries were made from sheet metal, tin, and brass and passed off as gold. This has been known since 1972. jasoncolavito.com/blog/fathe…
🗿 🗿 As Above So Below 🗿 🗿
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The object on the left is one of the fake “gold” objects (actually brass) collected by Father Crespi in Cuenca, Ecuador. These were presented as authentic by Erich von Däniken in his book “Gold of the Gods” (1976), but they have been long since exposed as fraud.
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I appreciate that Twitter is trying to moderate content. I do not appreciate that it lets bigots make comments suggesting gay people like me are pedophiles but warns me that I can't say otherwise.
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Remember, folks, the U.S. government once considered this man the most important proof of paranormal power, and the people tasked with researching him for the government became its UFO researchers.
My dear friends! The alien situation is beginning to become more bizarre by the day! I just got this from my US attorney. Please let me know your reaction no matter how strange , outrageous or enigmatic ! Photo is from 1890 I am told👽 waiting! #ufo #UFO #alien
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This is a Midjourney AI image by the artist Talon Abraxas. Here are on Tumblr similar AI images included this one:
talonabraxas.tumblr.com/post/718684620
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This whole flap will gradually fizzle as no evidence of aliens emerges, but not before everyone has gotten their taxpayer funding and contracts. politico.com/news/2023/07/28…
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The most astonishing part of the 21st century has to be the voluntary surrender worldwide of the democratic gains of the 20th century. Faced with unprecedented peace and prosperity, people worldwide keep choosing to blow it all up.
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Graham Hancock has submitted to skeptical questioning only once in the last few decades, in his debate with Flint Dibble, and has otherwise engaged only with a self-congratulatory network of cheerleaders, fellow conspiracy theorists, and celebratory podcasters and conferences.
QUOTE: "Until archaeology embraces science as a process, not a credential, it will remain stuck in self-congratulatory loops." END QUOTE
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I am truly amazed at the number of people who think that the Director of National Intelligence joining a panel discussion covering how UFOs will impact religion is totally normal for a high-ranking government official.
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George Knapp asserted on Ancient Aliens tonight that aliens are in "direct" contact with "certain bloodlines." That isn't a dangerous ideology to be promoting on national TV, no, sir.
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I received my University of Oklahoma royalty and sales statement today for the period ending Oct. 3, and I was genuinely surprised that in its third year of release, sales of "The Mound Builder Myth" spiked to a new high. It genuinely sold well! jasoncolavito.com/the-mound-…
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Rare to see such blatant agenda-setting. It's very hard to attribute to ignorance or incompetence using last year's poll to allege support for this year's legislative attacks.
Lest you think WaPo is capable of appropriately responding to criticism, this piece of garbage story inciting human rights violations was on the front page this morning
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TikTok isn't sure that ancient Rome really existed after an influential history TikToker posted a series of videos claiming Roman history is a fabrication and Roman ruins are Greek. pedestrian.tv/entertainment/…
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The idea that acknowledging the existence of gay people is inherently sexual and inappropriate is basically a demand to rebuild the closet. Being gay is no more a sex act than being straight, and no one freaks out over mentions of straight spouses. nytimes.com/2023/08/29/us/ba…
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A new study finds that teens are bombarded with conspiracy theories but, lacking media literacy skills, they struggle to separate truth from lies and fact from opinion. edsurge.com/news/2024-11-07-…
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I think we can all agree that the whole UFO thing is amateur hour all the way around. It's almost parody.
I legitimately don’t think I’ve ever seen a senior civil-servant publicly admonish Congress, and Congressional witnesses, including one with an active whistleblower investigation. 😳
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Does it bother anyone that @archaeology_aia has @joshuagates as a trustee, a man who literally went on TV to talk about believing space aliens built ancient sites, gives Brien Foerster airtime, and said that the ancient astronaut theory is "awesome" and "compelling"?
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For everyone who says Congress would never be involved in ufology if crashed saucers weren't real, it's worth remembering the great vampire panic of the 1700s, which saw some of the most learned men European governments convinced they had physical evidence of a vampire invasion.
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I never anticipated the hardest part of writing my book about James Dean and 1950s gay panic would be the number of people in publishing who, while claiming not to be themselves, are afraid that others in the industry won't touch the subject matter.
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